Tharawat magazine is an international business publication that focuses on family-owned companies around the world. Its content is composed of family business interviews, profiles, and best-practice articles. Tharawat magazine is distributed internationally and has a large subscriber base of family business executives and owners. Founded in 2008 by Dr. Hischam El Agamy, Founder and Publisher of Tharawat Media FZ-LLC, Tharawat magazine is the only family business magazine in the Middle East and one out of three worldwide to focus on this niche.
Tharawat magazine have recently published an article titled The Entrepreneurial Gene, written by our director Olive Yanli Hou and Gry Osnes. The piece is about their book Family Capitalism: Best Practices in Ownership and Leadership, which Hou contributed to and Osnes edited. This article features Hou’s case study on a Chinese family-business who manufacture wooden toys; here’s an extract:
In a dramatic example of multiple entrepreneurship by a successful family, a family in China has founded and nurtured a regional cluster of specialist businesses, principally in wooden toy manufacture and design, latterly supplemented by advanced digital entertainments. The first enterprise was a commune-run factory making wooden tools under the former Communist system in the 1970s, where a first-generation family member was appointed as managing director by the local government. His elder son, who worked alongside him from the age of 17, was voted by the employees as the successor when the founder had to retire under the then policy…Read more
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